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{{Infobox University
|name = Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
|picture = [[File:TroyBuilding.JPG|The Troy Building|200px]]
|motto = Knowledge and Thoroughness
|established = 1824
|type = [[Private university|Private]]
|president = [[Shirley Jackson (physicist)|Shirley Ann Jackson]]
|provost = Robert Palazzo <ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2203|title=Robert Palazzo Appointed Provost of Rensselaer|author=|date=June 28, 2007|accessdate=2007-08-16}}</ref>
|city = {{flagicon|USA}} [[Troy, New York|Troy]]
|state = [[New York]]
|country = [[United States|USA]]
|undergrad = 5,394 <ref name="cds">{{cite web |url=http://rpi.edu/about/cds/CDS2008_2009.pdf |title=Common Data Set 2008-2009 |accessdate=2009-01-04 |publisher= |date= }}</ref>
|postgrad = 2,127
|faculty = 496 <ref name="cds"/>
|campus = [[Urban area|Urban]], 275 acre
|free_label = Athletics
|free = 23 [[varsity team]]s<br>2 [[Division I]]<br>21 [[Division III]]
|mascot = The Red Hawk and Puckman
|website = [http://www.rpi.edu/ www.rpi.edu]
|endowment = [[United States dollar|US $]]793 [[1000000 (number)|million]]<ref>{{cite web | title = 2008 NACUBO Endowment Study | publisher = National Association of College and University Business Officers | url = http://www.nacubo.org/documents/research/NES2008PublicTable-AllInstitutionsByFY08MarketValue.pdf | format = PDF | accessdate = February 23, 2009}}</ref>
|colors = Cherry and White {{color box|#ED1C2E}} {{color box|#ffffff}}
|logo =
}}
'''Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute''', or '''RPI''' is a [[private university|private]] [[university]] in [[Troy, NY|Troy]], [[New York|NY]]. It was made in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer because he wanted there to be schools that taught [[science]] and [[engineering]]. It is the oldest engineering school in America. Lots of students from RPI get jobs that pay a lot of money after they leave RPI. Some people who went to RPI have started big companies like [[NVIDIA]], [[John Wiley and Sons]], and [[Texas Instruments]]. [[George Low]], an [[United States|American]] who helped get [[spaceships]] into [[Outer space|space]], went to RPI.
What RPI focuses on has changed a lot since it was first made. There still is a lot of engineering at the school, but now there is growing [[arts]] and [[social studies]] teaching at the school. A big concert hall called [[EMPAC]] was opened in 2008 at RPI.
Most of RPI's sports teams play in [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] Division III, which does not allow athletic scholarships. The men's and women's [[ice hockey]] teams play as Division I teams in [[ECAC Hockey]]. The hockey teams are can award scholarships because of a special NCAA rule.
==References==
{{reflist}}
== Other websites ==
{{commons|Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute}}
* [http://www.rpi.edu/ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]
* [http://www.lib.rpi.edu/dept/library/html/Archives/ Institute Archives and Special Collections]
* [http://www.unprompted.com/ntrw/Main_Page Not the Rensselaer Wiki]
* [http://www.rpiviews.com A Postcard History of RPI]
{{coord|42.7300|-73.6775|region:US_type:edu|display=title}}
{{ECAC Hockey}}
[[Category:Colleges and universities in New York]]
[[Category:ECAC Hockey|Rpi]]
|name = Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
|picture = [[File:TroyBuilding.JPG|The Troy Building|200px]]
|motto = Knowledge and Thoroughness
|established = 1824
|type = [[Private university|Private]]
|president = [[Shirley Jackson (physicist)|Shirley Ann Jackson]]
|provost = Robert Palazzo <ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2203|title=Robert Palazzo Appointed Provost of Rensselaer|author=|date=June 28, 2007|accessdate=2007-08-16}}</ref>
|city = {{flagicon|USA}} [[Troy, New York|Troy]]
|state = [[New York]]
|country = [[United States|USA]]
|undergrad = 5,394 <ref name="cds">{{cite web |url=http://rpi.edu/about/cds/CDS2008_2009.pdf |title=Common Data Set 2008-2009 |accessdate=2009-01-04 |publisher= |date= }}</ref>
|postgrad = 2,127
|faculty = 496 <ref name="cds"/>
|campus = [[Urban area|Urban]], 275 acre
|free_label = Athletics
|free = 23 [[varsity team]]s<br>2 [[Division I]]<br>21 [[Division III]]
|mascot = The Red Hawk and Puckman
|website = [http://www.rpi.edu/ www.rpi.edu]
|endowment = [[United States dollar|US $]]793 [[1000000 (number)|million]]<ref>{{cite web | title = 2008 NACUBO Endowment Study | publisher = National Association of College and University Business Officers | url = http://www.nacubo.org/documents/research/NES2008PublicTable-AllInstitutionsByFY08MarketValue.pdf | format = PDF | accessdate = February 23, 2009}}</ref>
|colors = Cherry and White {{color box|#ED1C2E}} {{color box|#ffffff}}
|logo =
}}
'''Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute''', or '''RPI''' is a [[private university|private]] [[university]] in [[Troy, NY|Troy]], [[New York|NY]]. It was made in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer because he wanted there to be schools that taught [[science]] and [[engineering]]. It is the oldest engineering school in America. Lots of students from RPI get jobs that pay a lot of money after they leave RPI. Some people who went to RPI have started big companies like [[NVIDIA]], [[John Wiley and Sons]], and [[Texas Instruments]]. [[George Low]], an [[United States|American]] who helped get [[spaceships]] into [[Outer space|space]], went to RPI.
What RPI focuses on has changed a lot since it was first made. There still is a lot of engineering at the school, but now there is growing [[arts]] and [[social studies]] teaching at the school. A big concert hall called [[EMPAC]] was opened in 2008 at RPI.
Most of RPI's sports teams play in [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] Division III, which does not allow athletic scholarships. The men's and women's [[ice hockey]] teams play as Division I teams in [[ECAC Hockey]]. The hockey teams are can award scholarships because of a special NCAA rule.
==References==
{{reflist}}
== Other websites ==
{{commons|Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute}}
* [http://www.rpi.edu/ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]
* [http://www.lib.rpi.edu/dept/library/html/Archives/ Institute Archives and Special Collections]
* [http://www.unprompted.com/ntrw/Main_Page Not the Rensselaer Wiki]
* [http://www.rpiviews.com A Postcard History of RPI]
{{coord|42.7300|-73.6775|region:US_type:edu|display=title}}
{{ECAC Hockey}}
[[Category:Colleges and universities in New York]]
[[Category:ECAC Hockey|Rpi]]